Over the last two and a bit years I have sent around 4,000 nuggets of 140-character gold. If it is possible to have feelings of squiffiness for web based services, then I have a big moist crush on Twitter. Its the conversation that never ends. On the days when I work from home, twitter is office banter and tea break chatter (and usually a crap-load wittier than my non-virtual world). While in the orifice, I have been known to occasionally tweet from Dementor Meetings (where you can feel your life force being sucked out of you, alongside any hope of being happy ever again). I also tweet about politics, lingerie, Rex and Science Guy. Adventures in tube travel. Rules to live by. Lady-parts. And when life is slightly less than fabulous. Twitter is the online record of the flotsam of my thoughts. These are not often big or clever.
So it was with some concern that I recently discovered some fucking genius has created a twitter feed option for Linked-in. This is bound to encourage deeply average middle managers from industrial estates near Reading, to tell the world about the spectacular powerpoint slide deck they just made, as they desperately eye-up the next rung on the Ladder of Corporate Glory. Awesome. It also means that twitter is more likely to be used by future potential employees to ascertain ones level of ‘professionalism’. I know this because when recruiting, I always look for shortlisted candidates on the interwebs. Please note: crappy grammar and mis-spellings in your application will lose you more points than a Facebook profile pic of you naked, save a fluorescent green sock on your cock (true story).
I would like to think that any future client will hire me because of the spectacular cleavage displayed in my never-fail-sponge interview suit my ability to do the job. That there is online evidence suggesting I am in possession of a personality is just a bonus.
Which is a long-winded way of saying that the tweetage will continue.
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I have made a point of avoiding Twitter as I fear that I will never get anything done otherwise.That, and I have nothing witty to contribute ;)
absolutely. but i am also glad that i am my own employer and employee. based on my prodigious prementrous tweetage i am not sure if i would hire myself… innit
premenstrous, premenstrous. bollocks, i can't even SPELL my own made-up words now. do not hire me.
I try to keep my Internet life clean so that anyone who Googles me will not be put off hiring me. Not that I (honestly) do anything that should put anyone off hiring me. I lead a remarkably mundane life. I have enough trouble having a "weird" last name and a resume so littered with contract jobs that everyone asks me what's wrong with me. (I worked short-term contracts because that was what was available… I'm not a bad person or horrible employee!)
I have never tweeted but it's certainly an addiction to many. I feel a little overwhelmed with my connectivity as it is… LinkedIn is WAY wrong for Twitter, though.
I've avoided twitter for some time now. I can never come up with anything clever in that short amount of words. But I'm going to have to make one soon just so I can follow some of my favorite bloggers. Hmmm…that makes me sound kind of stalkerish.?Spot
I love your tweets!I have two Twitter accounts, one under my blog name for friends, bloggy friends and general nonsense, and one in my real name for work stuff. When friends find me under the work one I always redirect them to the blog one, as the work one is b-o-r-i-n-g.
I am squirmy with glee to know that your EmoRex and iPad updates will continue unabated. I would hire you immediately based on your Tweets alone. Susannah, too.
Fortunately for all concerned, even deeply average middle managers from industrial estates near Reading can find better things to do than that.